Those were looked upon with a bit of scorn by the Veteran's Administration as a group of political appointees that had to be pacified and kept quiet and not allowed to throw any monkey wrenches in the working of the machinery of appellate judication.

In regard to the THIRD point -- that to an evil person is then imputed the evil of his life, and to a good person the good of his life, it is to be observed, that the imputation of evil is not accusation, inculpation, and judication, as in the world, but evil itself produces this effect; for the evil freely separate themselves from the good, since they cannot remain together.